pays every year to washington for things like border protection, housing illegal immigrants in jail, medicare and medicaid programs. he says clearly this is money washington owes to california, and some economists believe the obama administration should not let california fall. listen. >> it's probably an analogy one could make that we are too big to fail. does it mean that we may not have some difficulties that we need to the address ourselves? the failure of california would be a failure for the country. >>reporter: ross due value points out that california is the eighth largest economy in the world, and it provides 13% of the gross domestic product for the nation, so really the recovery of the nation actually depends on california, jon. jon: what about other states, though? i'm sure there are other states in pretty bad fiscal situations. can they get help from the federal government? >> well, right now there's only one other state asking for federal help, and that is new york. but certainly, you're right, there are many states facing huge budget holes. after california, new jersey faces th